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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] worried about PGPASSWORD drop
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Msg-id 200208292336.g7TNaYI08818@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] worried about PGPASSWORD drop  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> > They may want a symlink to point to somewhere else.  I can see that.  In
> > fact, I can see settings for Unix group sharing a password file but I am
> > not going to suggest loosening the group permissions until someone says
> > they want that.
>
> Doesn't stat() resolve all symlinks?

Yep, only lstat() sees symlinks.

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